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Ellen shared everything that had happened so far with Harriet. From Reinhart’s strange behavior, the assassination attempt that followed, and her confirmation of the existence of the assassin that day.
Harriet was shocked that Ellen had seen the bug that controlled people with her own eyes.
“I can’t believe a gordian worm that controls humans actually exists…”
“A gordian worm?”
Ellen tilted her head as if she was hearing about it for the first time.
“Well, so, inside the insect’s intestines… Ugh…”
Harriet turned pale as she tried to explain to Ellen what Cristina had told her. Her sharp mind vividly recalled the image of thread-like worms filling the insides of a grasshopper or a mantis.
Just speaking about it caused her to suffer damage herself.
“Anyway, there are worms that can mind-control insects…”
“Is that also magic?”
“No, they’re just naturally like that…”
“Interesting.”
Although it was a bizarre logic to assume that if there were worms that could control insects, there could surely be worms that could control humans through magic, the argument wasn’t completely devoid of persuasion since such things actually existed.
However, the clues pointed towards alchemy, not dark magic.
That did not mean that dark magic was completely uninvolved...
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